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Vernal Fall Mist Trail
$22.00
A switchback of granite steps cut into the south wall of Little Yosemite Valley, climbing alongside the spray of Vernal Fall on the Merced River. The waterfall drops 317 feet over a single granite shelf, and the spray comes off it so heavily in late spring that hikers arrive at the top soaked to the shins. There are about six hundred steps cut into the rock. The trail keeps going above the fall, across the granite apron at Emerald Pool, to the brink of Nevada Fall another mile up. Rainbows form in the gorge on sunny mornings; the route is closed in winter when ice sheets the steps.
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